Children of 4, 6, 8, and 10 yr. of age were tested for development of linguistic connectives, attention to order of causally related events, and their ability to explain the order of these events. Ss were asked to tell stories relating the events shown in pairs of pictures. The degree of constraint of the connectives used was related to the age and sex of Ss, and age and type of relationship presented (Causal vs Arbitrary). The attention to order of causally related events increased linearly with age. Ability to explain the temporal order of causally related events increased with age.
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